Akiko Amano-Kusumoto

Akiko Amano-Kusumoto
Ph.D. Student

Contact Information

Center for Spoken Language Understanding (CSLU)
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
OGI School of Science & Engineering

20000 NW Walker Rd. Beverton, OR 97006 USA

Phone: 503-748-1975
Fax: 503-748-1306 (CSLU)

Email: akusumoto at bme dot ogi dot edu

Research Interests

Background

: M. S. Electrical Engineering, Sophia University, Japan, 2002.

B. S. Electrical Engineering, Sophia University, Japan, 1999.

Advisor: Prof. Takayuki Arai

Work Experience

: Summer Internship, 2007

Oral Dynamics Lab (ODL), Speech-Language Pathology, University of Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
Mentor: Dr. Pascal Van Lieshout

Human Communication Lab, Center for Research on Biological Communication Systems, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, CANADA
Mentor: Dr. Bruce Schneider

: Electrical/Research Engineer, 2002-2004
National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research (NCRAR), VA hospital, Portland, OR

: Summer Internship, 2001
National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research (NCRAR), VA hospital, Portland, OR

: Visiting Research Scientist, 2000-2001
Center for Spoken Language Undersatnding (CSLU), OGI School of Science & Technology, Portland, OR

Selected Publications

Kain, A., Amano-Kusumoto, A., and Hosom, J. P., "Hybridizing conversational and clear speech to determine the degree of contribution of acoustic features to intelligibility," Journal of Acoustical Society of America (accepted for publication) .

Kusumoto, A., Kain, A. B., Hosom, J. P., van Santen, J. P. H., "Hybridizing Conversational and Clear Speech," Proceedings of InterSpeech, 2007.

Hodoshima, N., Arai, T., Kusumoto, A., Kinoshita, K., [PDF] "Improving Syllable Identification by a Pre-processing Method Reducing Overlap-masking in Reverberant Environments," Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 2006.

Kusumoto, A., Arai T., Kinoshita K., Hodoshima, N., Vaughan N., [PDF] "Modulation Enhancement of Speech by a Preprocessing Algorithm for Improving Intelligibility in Reverberant Environments," Speech Communication , Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 101-113, 2005.

Conference Presentations

Kusumoto, A., Hosom, J. P., Hayes, T. L., [PDF] "Effect of prosodic modifications on sentence recall", NCRAR conference, 2005.

Kusumoto, A., Hosom, J. P., Vaughan, N., [PDF] "Comparison of acoustic features of time-compressed and natural speech", Acoustical Society of America, 148th Meeting, 2004.

Kusumoto, A., Jacobs, P., Saunders, G. H., Lewis, M. S., [PDF] "Development of a 24-speaker sound localization test system." International Hearing Aid Research Conference (IHCON), 2004.